Defence`s Feeds

Nick Carter, ex-Chief of Defence Staff who became a consultant last year, has just become a strategic adviser on risk

Russia Theft Watch (RussiaTheftReport.com) reports on the destruction and pillage of Ukraine's cultural heritage in its 12 October edition. Before that,

Since the Vietnam War, when the ubiquitous Bell UH-1 ‘Huey' was equipped with forward-firing rockets and guns, helicopters used for engaging ground targets have evolved...

Iranian Shahed 136 Loitering Munition

The EU’s Strategic Compass (SC) calls for the creation of a ‘European Rapid Deployment Capacity’ (EU RDC) that would allow the EU to swiftly deploy up to 5 000 troops into non-permissive environments for different types of crises. The In-Depth Analysis (IDA) examines how this objective might be achieved successfully. It looks at the problems related to decision making and political will that have structurally hampered the deployment of the EU Battlegroups since their creation in 2007. It also looks at the conditions under which Member States might be willing to make first use of Article 44, which provides for small groups of Member States to act within an EU framework. Secondly, the IDA analyses operational questions, such as the Rapid Deployment Capacity’s (RDC) possible tasks, force packages and illustrative scenarios, the concept and size, exercises, costs, and addressing shortfalls. Thirdly, the analysis discusses command and control challenges, especially how to rapidly develop the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) as the RDC’s headquarters, and the role of Operational Headquarters (OHQ). The paper highlights the considerable potential for the RDC to substantially improve on the Battlegroups, strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomy, and positively contribute to the EU’s integrated approach to security and peace. Yet, the timetable is highly ambitious and will require Member States to give its achievement a high priority in their contributions. Furthermore, the RDC is only likely to succeed if the right lessons are learnt, not just in terms of improving operational readiness and capacity, but also crucially in terms of political signalling, commitment, and stronger sense of national ownership. The authors provide a number of recommendations for EU institutions on how this might be achieved in the short and longer term.
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Emerging Russian unreferenced vulnerability, so-called zero day, reseller Operation Zero (IO, 20/10/22) is already offering rewards equal to or higher than those offered by market leader Zerodium. It is offering $2.5m for a zero-click vulnerability on Google's Android mobile operating system

Fairfax/Washington: MAG Aerospace lobbyists deploy to Senate US intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) specialist MAG Aerospace has since October been represented

Luca Todesco, who heads Italian vulnerabilities tracker Dataflow Security, took advantage of the presentation he made at the Hexacon cyber

The sale of parts of Kazakhstan's military-industrial complex is under public and political discussion again in Astana. Five units that

"From Srebrenica to a Safer Tomorrow: Preventing Future Mass Atrocities around the World", a UK parliamentary report published on 11 October,

The coordination between the French foreign affairs ministry and the ministry of the armed forces on strategic communication (stratcom, IO,

The courtesy visit paid by senior Vietnamese Communist Party official Vo Van Thuong to Hun Manet, the son of prime

The hiring last month of investigations veteran Patrick Kelkar as Managing Director of Americas forThe Risk Advisory Group (TRAG) (IO,

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Length of video : 60'

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The former broker Farhad Azima filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit against the law firm Dechert and its former partner Neil Gerrard before the US district court for the Southern District of New York on 13

The Ukrainian government is getting increasingly impatient about Israel's refusal to supply it with military materiel and the Israeli cyber

Anglo-Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto is looking for a strategic communications adviser to help it in the political and media

While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made it known during its congress last week that it intends to raise military